Says that Texaco and the U.S. Oil and Refining Company will pay penalties totalling $14.7 million for separate oil spills under the US Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The fines, of up to $1,000 a barr...
Fuel Truck Spills Nearly 50 Gallons Of Heating Oil On Seventh Avenue Hazmat crews are on the scene of an oil spill in Manhattan. Oct 22, 2013 Troubling Backyard Oil Spill Turns Long Island Couple's Lives Upside-Down Imagine having to constantly breathe in the smell of oil inside your...
Oil spills will kill all the creatures in the area of the spill. The oil will be washed up on the shore and destroy the ecosystems along the shore, including birds. Everyone who cares about the environment should pay more attention to protecting the ocean, and all of us should do somethin...
Oil spills can kill birds, animals and fish. Oil sticks to fur or feathers. This stops the animals from keeping warm. They can die from the cold. They can also die from poisoning because they lick the oil from their fur or feathers. 石油泄漏可以杀死鸟类,动物和鱼类。 油粘在毛皮或羽毛上。
also monitoroil spillsusing remote imaging by the satellite, and thus provide services to support the handlingofoil spillemergencies. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 海洋卫星 2 号的成功发射将为各种海洋研 究项目提供监测数据,并将利用该卫星提供的遥感图像监测石油溢漏,从而为 处理石油溢漏意外...
1. Which oil companies are famous in your country? 2. Have there been any large oil spills reported in the news recently? If yes, where? 3. How do you think most oil spills are caused? Target Vocabulary 目标词汇 Match each word with the best meaning. 1. affect a. necessary; required...
(redirected from Oil Spills)Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia. oil´ spill` n. 1. A layer of oil floating on water or covering the shoreline of a body of water; - usually petroleum which has leaked from an oil tanker. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G....
The Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 was one of the largest oil spills in U.S. history. The tanker spewed nearly 300,000 barrels of thick, toxic crude oil into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound. Scores of herring, sea otters and birds were soaked in oil, and hundreds of miles of sh...
Petroleum meets almost half of our total energy needs, making it the largest direct source of energy in the United States. This large demand coupled with a limited domestic supply has required us to import nearly one-half of our oil at an annual cost of more than $30 billion. Demand has...
Petroleum spills often cause widespreaddamage to the environment; kill wildlife; contaminate the food chain; mar private and commercial property; pollute wells, aquifers, or other public water supplies; devastate coastal communities economically; close fisheries; and hobble tourism.(2) ...